Definition of quack

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Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.

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Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Merry-andrew :: Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor..
Quacking :: Quacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quac.
Quack :: Quack (n.) A boastful pretender to medical skill; an empiric; an ignorant practitioner.
Theologaster :: Theologaster (n.) A pretender or quack in theology.
Quack :: Quack (n.) Hence, one who boastfully pretends to skill or knowledge of any kind not possessed; a charlatan..
Empiric :: Empiric (n.) One who confines himself to applying the results of mere experience or his own observation; especially, in medicine, one who deviates from the rules of science and regular practice; an ignorant and unlicensed pretender; a quack; a charlatan..
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To make vain and loud pretensions; to boast.
Quack :: Quack (v. i.) To act the part of a quack, or pretender..
Mountebankish :: Mountebankish (a.) Like a mountebank or his quackery.
Mountebankery :: Mountebankery (n.) The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
Waahoo :: Waahoo (n.) The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.
Quack :: Quack (a.) Pertaining to or characterized by, boasting and pretension; used by quacks; pretending to cure diseases; as, a quack medicine; a quack doctor..
Quackeries :: Quackeries (pl. ) of Quacker.
Quackling :: Quackling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Quackl.
Salver :: Salver (n.) One who salves, or uses salve as a remedy; hence, a quacksalver, or quack..
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine..
Amethodist :: Amethodist (n.) One without method; a quack.
Nostrum :: Nostrum (n.) Any scheme or device proposed by a quack.
Empiricism :: Empiricism (n.) Specifically, a practice of medicine founded on mere experience, without the aid of science or a knowledge of principles; ignorant and unscientific practice; charlatanry; quackery..
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